Down that Pan American Highway
Book Author Roger Stephens
DescriptionIn the evening of the 6th of this month Mrs. Roger Stephens arrived in this city. She is from Westfield, New Jersey, U.S.A., and she is the first woman to have traveled along the Pan American Highway from the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) to this city, a run of about 1,450 miles. From Texas to Totolapa, Oaxaca, she traveled in passenger buses. The following 205 miles down to Humoa on the Oaxaca-Chiapas border our visitor had to travel by 3-ton trucks along a road still under construction. Three miles beyond Humoa Mrs. Stephens ran into heavy road-building equipment and therefore had to travel on horseback, a dangerous performance on a road under construction up in the mountains. Then came 1 5 miles to the Road Construction Camp of Los Amates which were negotiated in a truck of the construction company taking home road-workers who had finished their shift.